squabbles

英 [ˈskwɒblz]

美 [ˈskwɑːblz]

v. (为琐事)争吵，发生口角
n. 争吵，口角
squabble的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

V-RECIP (为琐事)争吵，起争执
When peoplesquabble, they quarrel about something that is not really important.
1. Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time...
  母亲很爱父亲，尽管他们总是为琐事拌嘴。
2. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television...
  孩子们正在为抢夺电视机的遥控器而争吵。
3. My four-year-old squabbles with his friends...
  我那个 4 岁大的孩子常和他的小伙伴们斗嘴。

双语例句

It makes your petty earthly squabbles seem so insignificant, as there is far more to life than you realise.
它使你的小属地争吵似乎微不足道，因为有更多的远远比你的生命实现。
Even now, the eurozone still squabbles over the small print of a package that is essentially irrelevant to its future.
即便到了现在，欧元区仍在围绕一项与其未来基本上不相干的方案的细则部分争吵不休。
I'm not interested in their petty squabbles.
我对他们的小争执不感兴趣。
My four-year-old squabbles with his friends
我那个4岁大的孩子常和他的小伙伴们斗嘴。
A stand-off between the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters has blocked years of effort to produce a meaningful international climate treaty, along with squabbles over the level of aid from developed countries deemed most responsible for global warming.
两大温室气体排放国的对峙，再加上围绕发达国家援助水平的争吵发达国家被视为全球变暖的罪魁祸首阻碍了签署有意义的国际气候协定的多年努力。
And there are squabbles over new shortcuts for shipping around the Siberian coast and the Northwest Passage.
对于船只绕过西伯利亚海岸的新捷径以及西北通道都存在着争议。
Like Russia and the US, China sometimes seems frustrated with the squabbles and convoluted decision-making procedures that often constitute EU policymaking.
与俄罗斯和美国相同，中国有时似乎也对欧盟决策过程中的争论和费解的程序感到失望。
A big reason the mayoral race has degenerated into squabbles over personal taxes and the shape of buses is that the candidates do not have much more to talk about.
市长选举之所以恶化变成围绕个人税务和巴士形状这些小事的你争我吵，一个重要原因是两位候选者都没什么可值得谈论的。
She might have called a few former friends to apologize, and mend fences for past squabbles.
她可能还会给几位昔日朋友打电话主动道歉，摒弃前嫌。
But money as in most domestic squabbles also appears to be a big part of the picture.
就像大多数内斗一样，钱也是导致两家分手的一个重要原因。